Anonymousabout 2 hours ago
U.S. Army Master Sergeant Gannon Ken Van Dyke, a special forces soldier who participated in planning the January 2026 raid to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, has been charged with using classified intelligence about the operation to win more than $409,000 on the prediction market Polymarket. The case — the first federal prosecution for insider trading on a prediction market — has triggered a national reckoning over the regulatory vacuum surrounding these platforms and the vulnerability of classified operations to exploitation by the very personnel entrusted to carry them out.